Gleam 1.7 has arrived with faster record updates and a dynamic coder for a custom type. Overall, the latest version of Gleam touts performance and package publishing improvements. This latest update to Gleam was announced January 5 and is accessible from GitHub. Created by developer Louis Pilfold, Gleam is described as a type-safe and scalable language…
Gleam 1.5, the latest version of a statically typed language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, has been published, with productivity improvements such as upgraded compile-time error messages. Launched September 19, Gleam 1.5 can be accessed from GitHub. With this release, compile-time error messages for inexhaustive pattern matching have been upgraded to show…
It can sometimes be overwhelming keeping up with everything happening in the world of JavaScript, but I think JavaScript developers mostly know we are lucky. We get to work in a space where smart people are constantly generating new ideas. We are surrounded by peers who are freely available and actively engaged, a high-water mark…
In 1995, a small group of programmers with big dreams launched JavaScript. It was going to be called Mocha or LiveScript, but then some savvy folks decided to jump on the Java-language bandwagon, which was already building a big head of steam. The initial goals for the new scripting language were simple: Add a bit…
You’ve heard of the FAQ, which is typically a list of frequently asked questions on some topic or another. A twist on that idea, the FSS—for frequently sought solutions—lists solutions to some of the most common pleas for help. These tend to go beyond “newbie” questions and address real-life issues that bedevil programmers. Here are…
